Re: SCSI Utilities for Apple Rev. A?

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message 
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> Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone know of any utilities that can be used to partition and format 
>> drives
>> attatched to an Apple II SCSI Card Rev. A?
>
> Probably only the software which came with the card. The application you
> need is called something obvious like SCSIPARTITION. It is similar to
> the HDSCPARTITION software included with the high-speed SCSI card.
>
That's what I figured my only option is. After digging around online, I 
can't seem to find a copy of the disk that came with the card.

> The software only supports creating two partitions.
>
>> The card is sitting in a platinum IIe now. I tried using the utilities
>> from Apple's website, but they are only for the high-speed card. I tried
>> Chinook, but it says it can't find a revision C card, which is true, I
>> have a revision A card. Anyone have the disks that originally came with
>> the card?
>
> Another option is to upgrade the firmware on the card, if you can
> arrange to burn an EPROM (a 27128 is required; I can give you a copy of
> the firmware image).  That will bring you up to revision C, which will
> fix some rather serious bugs, add functionality and let you use much
> better software like Chinook SCSI Utilities.
>
Yeah, it's one of those things I've been meaning to do but never got around 
to. Come to think of it there's a lot of those... ;-)

-Greg
> -- 
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz